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"Convey textual information" is not the sole purpose of any website. Websites have many purposes and functions, including of course interactive functions and c

• krapp 8y ago
  > "Convey textual information" is not the sole purpose of any website. It doesn't have to be the sole purpose of any website for it to be the primary purpose of many. For instance the purpose of this forum, along with many forums, is to convey primarily textual information in the form of comments arranged in a hierarchy. The purpose of medium.com is to convey textual information in the form of blog posts. The purpose of a site like Wired, newspaper sites and magazine sites, like their analog counterparts, is to convey textual information (albeit with a heavy graphical element) in the form of articles. Websites expand upon the possibilities inherent to the medium of the printed page but HTML is a hypertext format, and its purpose (and therefore the purpose of most webpages) is to convey information in the form of hypertext. Interactivity and embedded elements don't detract from the textual nature of the web or its origin in concept or the relationship in the styles evolved with the printed page. >Completely different to any book. Different in structure, but not different in purpose, and therefore not completely divorced from the same design considerations. Yes, we could design every website to look the way the redesigns in the article do, but would you really rather use the hacker news redesign presented in the article than this one? Would you rather use any of those redesigns?